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Author Knight, G. Wilson (George Wilson), 1897-1985.

Title The wheel of fire : interpretations of Shakespearian tragedy with three new essays / by G. Wilson Knight
Edition Fourth, revised and enlarged edition
Published Lond. : Methuen, 1972
©1949

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 W'PONDS  820.33 Z K695/W/1960  AVAILABLE
Description xx, 343 pages ; 22 cm
Series University paperbacks ; U.P. 12
University paperbacks ; U.P. 12
Contents Contents: Introduction / T.S. Eliot -- On the principles of Shakespeare interpretation -- The embassy of death: an essay on Hamlet -- The philosophy of Troilus and Cressida -- Measure for measure and the Gospels -- The Othello music -- Brutus and Macbeth -- Macbeth and the metaphysic of evil -- King Lear and the comedy of the grotesque -- The Lear universe -- The pilgrimage of hate; an essay on Timon of Athens -- Shakespeare and Tolstoy -- Symbolic personification -- The Shakespearian metaphysic -- Tolstoy's attack on Shakespeare (1934) -- Hamlet reconsidered (1947) -- Appendix: Two notes on the text of Hamlet (1947)
Notes Reprinted with minor corrections 1954 and 1956
Bibliography Includes bibliographical notes
Notes Also issued online
Subject Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Tragedies.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Plays. Selections.
Author Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965.
LC no. 52000591
ISBN 0416509304 (hard cover)
0416676200 (paperback)